> They won't, and Cygwin itself has no way of changing that. 64-bit
> editions of Windows cannot run anything 16-bit (technically, the V86
> mode is gone from both the CPUs and the system).  That does mean DOS
> itself is not available, and therefore nothing expecting to run in DOS
> can run either.

You can use DOSBox (IIRC 0.74-3 was the latest version) on any current Windows 
OS to run those applications.

HTH,

Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI


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